Word: nicollet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout Greek Orthodox Catholic, he wore a crucifix inside his shirt and a medallion of the Virgin Mary in the lining of his coat, never ventured to conduct without them both. When he was not conducting or studying scores, he could usually be found in the gallery of a Nicollet Avenue cinema theatre...
...last week, as their symphony rounded out its season with an appeal for funds to balance the $250,000 annual budget, they thanked their stars for it. "Never mind my dignity," said Conductor Mitropoulos. "If necessary to continue the orchestra, I'll take the men to Seventh and Nicollet [heart of downtown Minneapolis] and play there and then pass...
That was not necessary. But one night last week, in the Nicollet Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...
Minneapolis. After ten way-station stops Governor Landon arrived afternoon later in Minneapolis. No parade was waiting to meet him, for Minneapolis is in the grip of four mill strikes and a parade might have been seized on by radicals as occasion for a demonstration. When he left the Nicollet Hotel to go to the municipal auditorium, a small group of workmen was waiting for him. "Boo!" they shouted, "We're for Roosevelt! Boo! You're just another Hoover...
...these many years- I mean the Penny Press-I read, through a megaphone, his famous speech as it came over the telegraph from the convention hall in Chicago. I read it to a great crowd of citizens who stood on the street below-on Newspaper Row-Fourth Street between Nicollet and First. When he grew grass in the streets of the cities and bore down upon the brow of labor his Cross of Gold I was more excited than I ever have been at a football game. I nearly fell into the street from the window sill. Later I traveled...